Hello, I am Andrew, VK2AWN, living on the east coast of Australia. I am an Apple fan boy, and am developing this page to highlight my beginner’s experience on integrating Apple devices and Ham Radio.
There’s no shortage of information, apps and hardware available for the Mac, iPhone and iPad. What is missing, however, is an aggregator that has the latest news, support, tips, tricks and experiences for those in the Apple ecosystem. That’s what this page (and one day a site) will hopefully become.
Latest posts
- GridTracker for Mac now works seemlessly with SDR Control for Icom (for Mac) without audio routing #hamradio #amateurradio
- Apple Ham Radio Weekly for Sunday, 5 October 2025
- Getting into Software-Defined Radios can be confusing, especially on Mac and Apple devices. Here’s my cheat sheet.
- Apple Ham Radio Weekly for Sunday 28 September 2025
- Being on time on the Mac
Here’s a look at what I use on the Mac, iPhone and iPad and some links to my posts and those of others.
My Mac (12 August 2025)
My experience and posts
- My entry into Amateur Radio with the Mac
- UTC clock apps
- Power
- Logging
- DStar applications
- Initial Mac set-up
- Satellite
Useful pages and posts
- Ham Radio and and Apple Mac
- Mac-Based Amateur Radio Digital Applications – Installation and Integration
- Paul Simmonds VK5PAS (a bit outdated)
- Carl Howe WG1V
- On All Bands from DX Engineering (and an article on iOS and iPad OS apps)
Groups
- Facebook – Mac-Hams (requires approval to join)
- QRZ Mac Ham Radio on MacOS & iOS (not many posts)
Useful YouTubers and posts
- Best Ham Radio Software For Mac & iOS and a second one on the MacBook (YouTube) (Great beginners videos)
- Rich Donohue, K0POR, (YouTube and QRZ)
YouTube
Planned for writing
Your starting point
- Mac Ham Radio (great site)
- Mac Ham Radio (big software list)
- DX Zone (a bit outdated)
- Open Source Mac Ham Radio Software (great page)
Software I use
- Marcus & Jan Roskosch (SDR Control for Icom anbd HamToolBox)
- DogPark Software (MacDoppler and MacDopplerRadios)
- RT Systems software and support (and a 2022 post on Mac software) (I use their programmers on ID-52A+, IC-7300, IC-208H)
- ICOM
- Chirp (Open Source)
- HAMRS for cross platform logging
- Ham 2K Portable Logger
- ParksNPeaks for POTA
- Satgazer for tracking satellites
- TQSL for LOTW
- ISS Detector
- SDR++
- MagicSDR (for iOS and iPadOS)
- WSTJ-X and GridTracker
My iPhone
14 September 2025